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| US European Command (USEUCOM) |
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Stuttgart, Germany
The command is responsible for US military relations with NATO and 51 countries on two continents with a total population of close to a billion people.
USEUCOM conducts military operations, international military partnering, and interagency partnering to enhance transatlantic security and defend the United States forward |
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| US Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) |
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Peterson AFB, Colorado
US Northern Command conducts homeland defense, civil support, and security cooperation to defend and secure the United States and its interests
USNORTHCOM plans, organizes, and executes homeland defense and civil support missions, but has few permanently assigned forces |
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| US Pacific Command (USPACOM) |
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Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii
USPACOM protects and defends, in concert with other US Government agencies, the territory of the United States, its people, and its interests |
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| US Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) |
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Miami, Florida
US Southern Command is responsible for providing contingency planning, operations, and security cooperation for Central and South America, the Caribbean |
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| US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) |
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MacDill AFB, Florida
Overseesthe various Special Operations Commands of the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps of the United States Armed Forces.
USSOCOM conducts several covert and clandestine missions, such as unconventional warfare, etc. |
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| US Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) |
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Scott AFB, Illinois
As the single manager of America's global defense transportation system.
Coordinates people and transportation assets to allow the US to project and sustain forces, whenever, wherever, and for as long as they are needed. |
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| US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) |
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Offutt AFB, Nebraska
US Strategic Command is charged with space operations, information operations, missile defense, global command and control, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), global strike and strategic deterrence, and combating weapons of mass destruction. |
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| Air Education and Training Command (AETC) |
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Randolph AFB, Texas
AETC sustains the combat capability of the operational Air Force by providing highly trained and motivated Airmen and manages mobility and contingency tasking support for combatant commanders. |
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| Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) |
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Barksdale AFB, Louisiana
Air Force‘s newest command.
AFGSC develops and provides combat-ready forces for nuclear deterrence and global strike operations—safe, secure, effective—to support the President of the United States and combatant commanders |
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| Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) |
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Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
Delivers war-winning technology, acquisition support, sustainment, and expeditionary capabilities to the warfighter |
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| Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) |
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Robins AFB, Georgia
Provides personnel to augment the active duty community to carry out the warfighting mission with approximately 14% of the total force while spanning a wide variety of missions |
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| Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) |
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Peterson AFB, Colorado
Responsible for organizing, training, and equipping mission-ready space and cyberspace forces and capabilities for North American Aerospace Defense Command, US Strategic Command, and other combatant commands world-wide |
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| Air Mobility Command (AMC) |
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Scott AFB, Illinois
Provides airlift and aerial refueling for all of America‘s armed forces. |
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| Pacific Air Force (PACAF) |
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Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii
PACAF organizes, trains, equips, and maintains resources prepared to conduct a broad spectrum of air operations—from humanitarian relief to decisive combat employment—in DoD‘s largest area of responsibility. |
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| US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) |
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Ramstein Air Base, Germany
USAFE builds and maintains partnerships, promotes regional stability, provides forces for global operations, supports combatant command missions, sustains forward-based infrastructure, ensures strategic access to US forces, assure allies and deter aggression. |
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| Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) |
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Hurlburt Field, Florida
The command‘s mission areas include shaping and stability operations, battlefield air operations, information operations, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), specialized air and space mobility, precision engagement, and agile combat support. |
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| US Africa Command (USAFRICOM) |
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Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart, Germany
US Africa Command is responsible for US military relations with 53 African countries
USAFRICOM better enables the DoD to work with other elements of the US government and others to achieve a more stable environment where political and economic growth can take place. |
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| US Central Command (USCENTCOM) |
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MacDill AFB, Florida
With national and international partners, USCENTCOM promotes cooperation among nations, responds to crises, deters or defeats state and nonstate aggression, and supports development and, when necessary, reconstruction in order to establish the conditions for regional security, stability, and prosperity |
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